[Music] this reg Mee Jo Lake City council's call to order and at this time I'd like to invite all of you to please stand and join me in reciting the pl to the flag it's over
here to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for the first item in the agenda is the regular agenda this evening I would
entertain a motion from the council for approval of the regular agenda as printed motion been made second to approve the regular agenda discussion all in favor the motion say I I oppose the motion
carries excuse my voice tonight I had a medical proced this we try to make it through the meeting the consent agenda is before the council and all items of the nisk are considered to be routine by the city council and will be enacted by one
motion there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member or citizen requests in which event the item will be removed from the general order of business and considered separately in its normal sequence on the agenda is there any items that need to be added or removed
from the consent agenda I'd like to have item 6K move to the reg to off the consent any other items from the council with that I would entertain a
motion to approve the consent agenda with removal of item 6K so mov motion been made to approve the consent agenda discussion all in favor the motion say I I oppose the motion carries
minutes of the regular city council meeting held June 11th 2024 before Council has anyone in the audience or any member of the council wish to make any changes or adjustments to the minutes hearing none I would entertain a
motion to approve the minutes of the regular city council meeting from June 11th 2024 was been made second it to approve the minutes of the regular council meeting held June 11th discussion all in favor the motion say I
iose the motion carries Amanda quam is here this evening from West Seal initiative and she'd like to present the annual update welcome Amanda thanks for having me um I'm Amanda quam I'm the grants officer at
West Central initiative still relatively new I started with West Central initiative in December right before the holidays um so most of you may be familiar with West Central initiative um but we are are here just to kind of give
an update and then see if you have any questions or concerns for us so um I brought a folder for all of the council members I'll kind of go through what's in the folder and then just touch on a little bit on Becker County and what's going on um with uh West Central
initiative and um specifically with Detroit Lakes so um looking at your folder you have a little uh handout about Becker County um also below that is the ripples of goods so that's our 2023 annual review um if you're not
familiar with West Central initiative that's really good summary of our work um it's an entire book so we do a whole lot um being a Community Foundation and also our Economic Development Organization for this region and on the
Le hand side of your packet um we have a little bit about different programming that um we have this year so we have a one pager on our Loan program um so those are mostly small business loans um we help with gap funding so access to
Capital um and we also have our child care loans so just a little bit about that um and if you have any questions Greg Wagner would probably be the person to contact um we also have a little bit about our democracy program so uh we
have a run for Rural which is just a one and a half day leadership training so i' like to bring this up at City Council meetings because if you are looking for new city council members or you maybe have some people in mind that could use a little booth to get involved in um
Civic leadership that would be a great program we also have the rural advocacy and public leadership program so that's a little bit more in depth and that's a six-month leadership program so that would also be a good option um for folks that you may want to help get involved
um and then we also have going local and Lead local which are more um shorter workshops and um we localists specifically for networking and making connections those programs um are done by Celeste who is from Detroit Lake so
she's local and we also have um just a one pager on our climate action plan so a little bit of information on that and some ideas and a way or ways that you can make a difference so um definitely
check that out and um we have two um climate officers now so Cedar's contact information is on the back if you want to connect with her and we also have another new climate officer named Griffin we have a start a ripple
pamphlet here so this is about um our um campaign that we're kicking off we've had our um starter Ripple events throughout um the counties the Becker County U start event was just last week and and we have just a little
handout about our regional development organization so that's kind of more of the regional development work that we do so um just a little bit of information of course all this is on the website too so you can dig a Little Deeper on there so kind of focusing on Becker
County um since 1986 when West Central initiative was founded we've had over uh 5 million Grands come into Becker County and 4.3 million in loans Lo um we also have a lot of component funds so those
are funds and donor advice funds that um individuals or organizations have set up with West Central initiative so Becker County is really active in that area with 7.7 million in assets um so a total of 10.2 million um of loans and grants
that have come into Becker County over the years and then those um some of those active component funds are listed there um we also have some of the projects that West Central initiative has assisted um with in Becker County um
and we also try to have a board member from each County so Jackie is on our board she's actually the board chair currently so it's great to have her and we also have Jacob who's representing white Earth Nation on our board so kind of just to cover a few things going on
in Detroit Lakes as far as numbers go um like I mentioned the community funds are really active which is great so just from July 2023 to June 30th of this year so pretty much one year um we've had
1357 million um in Grants uh you know from the community foundations distributed here in Detroit Lakes um some Early Childhood initiative um funds have come in we also have the Main Street revitalization Grants um that's
at just under 75,000 and this is fresh off the press our West Central initiative um grants that the Press is actually tomorrow the press release so a little early um of the 46 grants that um we have going out to nonprofits in our region um four of
those are to organizations here in Detroit Lakes and that's um just under 44,000 so really nice to see those funds coming into Detroit Lakes and supporting um some really great nonprofits so all in total it's um just
over 1.4 million um in Grants coming in um in just this past year so those are kind of the things I wanted to touch on um but open to questions um oh I did notice I missed one thing in the booklet
we also have a local um Grant that's for um technical assistance so it's for municipalities so if Detroit Lakes was interested in renewable energy um you could apply or contact Cedar um and receive technical assistance on applying
for Grants so you're not getting grant funding necessarily through West Central initiative but more the support to help find grants and apply for those so that could be state federal or from other nonprofits so I think that's all I have
um but open to questions or comments anything that's going on amand you did a great job but I I've been wrong for the 40 years that W Central and they're they're such an important factor for our part of the state and uh you represent
over 250,000 people but the big deal is that you're in nine counties and U also part of white Earth and some of the big factors over the 40 years I took down some notes when we had the meeting here last U last week over car we you have
given out $78 million in Grants in the last 40 years you've given out $59 million in loans you've created over 9,000 new jobs and then you also have $299 million of loan dollars leveraged so your impact on our area has been huge
and I'm just wondering what we would have done if we hadn't had all that extra support so your group uh having the 40th year anniversary here you've done a great job of representing all of us and I as I said at that meeting that if communities don't have West Central
initiative in their twool box they're missing out on a lot of program that they could have to help their communities and you've done a great job on that and I thank you for that thank you I'll pass that along further questions or com Jackie yeah I just have a quick comment as as uh chair of this
um chair of this West West Central board I've had the opportunity to learn a lot more um and I would just encourage people to learn a lot more about West Central via the website they have a number of different newsletters that you can subscribe to because there are new things always um always happening in our
communities that important for our for our um Council and our communities to know about so I encourage that as any further questions or comments Amanda thank you for coming this evening we appreciate hearing from you thank you and if you have any
questions that come up later my card is in the folder i' be happy to chat with you thank you so much at this time I adjourn the regular meeting and call to order a public hearing to receive public comments on the proposed ordinance
25 an interim ordinance temporarily prohibiting the operation of a cannabis business in the city of Detroit Lakes and uh call on the city staff to uh introduce that to the council if you would Kelsey mayor council I'll start
with that U the Cannabis statute that was adopted last year allows local governments to adopt U kind of reasonable restrictions on the time place and manner of cannabis business operations so a lot of cities are looking at doing that through their zoning ordinance so for example we could
adopt regulations on you know what zoning districts we want to allow cannabis cultivation like industrial districts uh we can also consider um where we want to allow cannabis retail businesses to be located for example like commercial districts um also
different times of operation are things that are allowed in the statute so we've been waiting U kind of all year for the state to put out some model ordinances which they did just a couple of weeks ago the problem is uh why we're looking at doing a moratorium are doing the
first reading tonight is this last legislative session uh the legislature decided to speed up the process a little bit uh originally none of the license were were supposed to be approved until January 1 2025 um this last bill from uh this last
legislative session allows preapplication process uh for the social Equity applicants to actually begin taking applications later this month I think July 24th is the start of that application process um and then actually with those approved social
Equity applicants there is a possibility they could even begin cultivation yet this year even though retail sales couldn't couldn't start until uh 2025 so that the statute that's in place does allow uh local governments to put a
moratorium in place until January 1 of 2025 so basically what we're we're doing is exercising that option to put a moror in place over the next 6 months till January 1 of 2025 to buy us time to basically put our zoning ordinance and
other restrictions in place because part of that uh that pre-application process applicants have to verify zoning with uh the jurisdiction that they want to go so before we start meeting calls about what is allowed in the city Detroit Lakes we
want to have those rules in place so I'm going to look to Charlie if you has anything to add the only thing I would add is is that just because it gives us until 1st of 2025 doesn't mean that we need to take all of that time if we have
our um ordinance amendments uh in place uh there's nothing that says that we couldn't resend the moratorium that what you working okay uh any further questions from the counc or comments mayor I just
add so again uh we have to have a public hearing and there's a first reading and then we're looking at doing the second reading on special council meeting on July 19th is there anyone in the audience that wants to ask a question or make a comment about the proposed
interim ordinance regarding cannabis businesses hearing none that public hearing is closed and I would entertain a motion from the council so move second motion has been made second to give first reading to ordinance 525 an interim ordinance temporarily
prohibiting the operation of a cannabis business in the city of Detroit Lakes discussion all in favor of the motion say I iOS motion carries first reading is given to ordinance 525 at this time I'll call to order a
public hearing to give consideration to the establishment of Redevelopment project number 43 the Redevelopment plan and establishment of tax increment finan district 43-1 and I don't know is Micha here yet
are you Mela yeah okay I'm going to first have Larry maybe preface this a little bit then I'll call on Michaela this project is for Quality Equipment it's a cabota dealership that will go on Highway 10 East it's in the
location where the old Swinging Doors was located where that was burned out decades ago so we're going to redevelop that site uh they will create 7 to 12 new jobs and they will invest about $4 million in our
community okay thanks Larry uh with that I would uh call on Michaela huitt from Baker Tilly you want to come on up welcome to Detroit Lakes technical problems I'm on
now I was going to say it wer very thank you sorry try your new technology here and see if it works it's working good great new facility um Michaela H with B Tilly um thanks for having me here I did pres
U prepare a brief um presentation um with an overview of tax acement financing as a tool the project and the structure of the tax increment assistance it's on this one but it's not on that one just see um so again just an overview of the
presentation the project summary the request for tax increment assistance uh the fundamentals of tax increment financing um financing options for Which tax increment dollars are typically used um the financial uh tip plan review and Analysis and the next steps um with the
approval process so the city did receive an application for tax increment financing assistance from qf5 LLC um in conjunction with Redevelopment of the existing substandard buildings um that were uh reviewed and determined to be substandard for the the Redevelopment
qualifications of a tax increment financing District um they are proposing an approximate 15,000 foot new building with construction um expected to start mid to late in 2024 um the request for taxit assistance from the city was in um is structured as
two ways and we'll go into detail on the financing options the first is to um Finance site development costs of approximately 623,000 570 and those are um uh that would be financed through payy go and u meaning
the developer would Finance those costs on with private financing and then would receive reimbursement for those costs um in the future years of tax increment collection there are also additional infrastructure improvements that are just under 400,000 that um are related
to the Redevelopment of this project site and and the structure of those would be um financed by the city and then a percentage of the increment would be retained by the city to repay um that that cost so tax increment financing is a tool that's commonly used by communities
to um uh facilitate development and Redevelopment projects it is a method of capturing the tax based growth that results from a new development of Redevelopment project um there's a fixed number of years for the capturing of the tax based growth and then the new
development capacity that's been created by that project is added to the existing tax base for all the taxing entities the tax increment revenues are generated by that increased property value that um is created when that property is redeveloped here's an illustr excuse me
illustration showing the existing land and building value at the bottom that's today's value of the property the taxes that are generated by um the existing taxes continue to go to the city count and School District so there's nothing that's taken away from the um current taxes of the property itself once that
new building is constructed the um taxes that are generated by that new building are captured by the tax agreement district for um up to the term of the district to finance the obligations for which um the purpose of the tax increment District was created there are several different
types of tax increment districts that can be created um I've got five listed here and some of these districts are B B on the current condition of the property and some are based on the end uses um the focus of the project tonight is a Redevelopment District where it's really
to remove substandard underutilized properties um and the maximum term is 25 years there's also a uh current condition um substandard one referred to as renewal and renovation that is generally less contaminated or blighted
and that's a reduced term of 15 years and there's also a soils condition which is for um contaminated um polluted soils with a term of 20 years um the last two the housing districts and the economic development those are based on what is being developed on the site with the
housing being for low and moderate income um housing with the maximum 25e term and then lastly Economic Development District which is for manufacturing warehousing distribution industrial type development with a term of eight years again we're looking at the uh Redevelopment District based on
current status of the property um removing the um standard buildings and then the construction of a new um facility on the site there are only certain types of costs that can be financed uh with tax increment you'll see listed here uh it's
typically the cost prior to Vertical construction so it could include public improvements acquisition soil correction site grading demolition or site preparation and then um some of the cost costs related to those um Capital expenditures it's important to note that
you can use ta increment on um certain improvements that are um governmental and recreational facilities so that would include uh City Hall Public Safety or public works or culture recreational facilities such as Parks community centers or golf
courses you creating a tax increment District um you have the small building in this little U um Circle each individual tax increment district is where the um development to Redevelopment occurs and it's where the tax increment dollars are being
generated um there are a portion of those dollars that can be spent outside of the individual Tiff District on the larger project area and that's referred to as pooling um the size of your project area can be the same as your tax equipment District or it can be larger as you see in the illustration here um
when you're creating a tax increment District it is again for the specific purpose and project for which um you're facilitating the development and Redevelopment for um prior to creating that tax increment District you do have a tiff plan that is adopted that tip plan includes the budget of the
projected revenues and estimated public costs of the project includes the geographic boundaries for which the um tax increment district is being created within and then the the public purpose for which that project's uh uh being created the final steps include a public
hearing which is what is um being asked of council tonight and that is to um consider the establishment of the tax increment plan in the tax increment district and then the final step would be certification the district um by the county that is a request that the city
makes to the county um to certify the district here is a summary from the tax inovent plan of the budget um it includes a total estimated public cost of the project um see listed here we've got for site improvements preparation costs of
97,000 other public improvements of 725 um administrative expenses cannot exceed more than 10% of your total budget so the total estimated public costs are about 1.8 million and the projected tax Inc revenues that would be generated by that new development over the 26 years
are 1.8 million I talked about financing options the two primary ways that you see tax inent dollars being used uh the first is pay to go and again this is where the project is um financed by the developer upfront um through private equity and
debt um or other sources upon completion of the project and incurring of the uh cost for which the city's agreed to reimburse the developer there would be a tiff note that's issued and then the developer would be reimburse over time to the extent that there is available increment to repay that initial p uh
piso obligation with upfront um financing this is typically where the city would finance a portion of the cost up front and that could be either done through an inter fund loan or through the issuance of bonds and um with upfront financing
the city is relying upon the future tax revenues to repay the obligation whether it's in fund loan or um Bond uh Debt Service so with this structure um with the projected tax increment from the previous budget of 1.8 million um the
structure of the Tiff between the city and the developer would be that the city would retain 50% of the annual increment generated by the project to repay the um in fund loan um uh for the road improvements of the of just under
400,000 at % interest the remaining 50% would be pledged to the developer to um repay for the site improvements of the 623,000 so the way the structure is of that it would allow the city to um repay for the road improvements um adjacent to
the site as well as to offset the site Improvement costs um as necessary for the project to proceed here's a summary of the uh sources and uses from the developers um project you'll see it is about a $3.9 million project comprising of
acquisition site development building construction costs and then other um fees related to the project fin the financing for the project would be debt of 3.2 million um Equity you'll see the tip of the 623,000 um because the tip
would be as paid to go the developer would um be responsible for financing that 623 570 upfront and then would use the tax increment to repay that obligation so the impacts of Tiff um as a tool it's uh the purpose of it is to redirect the
future capture tax increment dollars to meet the defined public purpose um in this case it's the removal of the substandard buildings and underutilized properties through the creation of tax from a district um and uh New U facility that would be constructed there the
purpose of it is to assist projects that would otherwise not occur and thus meets the butt for test and uh once the project and the obligations have been fulfilled um that new uh captured tax base is added um to the the tax base of
the city the county the school as a whole so it's it can be viewed as a long-term investment of future growth for the city the last um illustration I have is showing the dark green area this is the current um value in taxes that are
generated prior to creation of the district over the life of that District um that b B value remains that um the gray shaded area these are the incremental taxes that are generated by the new project they're captured by the tax increment District to pay for the
Tiff eligible um improvements for the Tiff plan the last year of the district when it's decertified the new higher tax value in base is um um added uh to the other to all the tax and entities general tax base and that's where you start to see that tax base growth
following the capturing of the the uh tax base through the term of the district here's the the why of why cities uh use tax incent financing first and foremost it's to stimulate development that otherwise would not occur and that's meeting the but for test it's also to um
encourage the development of uses that you would otherwise U maybe not see in your community whether um it's certain types of development or certain areas of development it's to enhance and diversify your attx space um as well as facilitating um infrastructure and other public improvements within your
community um when we're reviewing the tax increment um plan and considering approval there are findings that are met the first is that the tip plan will afford maximum opportunity consistent with the sound needs of the city as a whole for private or for development by private Enterprise uh that the Tiff plan
conforms the general plans for development of the city as a whole the Planning Commission did review the Tiff plan um to assist with reviewing the um development plans of the the the project site um that the project qualify as a Redevelopment district and as I described earlier there are specific
criteria for each type of District that's being created or considered um and that the proposed development in the opinion of the city would not reasonably be expected to occur solely through private investment within the reasonably foreseeable future and this is the the uh the but for test
again and the last one is that the increased market value of the property to be developed is greater with tax in financing than if no Public Assistance is provided and this test is also important to understand that something may happen on that site at some point in the future but you're trying to maximize
what may occur on that site uh with the use of the tax securement dollars that are um offsetting a portion of the uh extraordinary costs that that are essentially the barriers for that project to occur so again Redevelopment districts um the uh looking at the uh 70% of the
area are occupied by um structures more than 50% of the buildings are substandard and to be occupied at least 15% of the area is covered by some type of structure schedu and next steps uh when a tax increment uh request is submitted
to the city there is a process that is followed um it is about a 60-day process that includes um the drafting of the tip plan there is notice to the county both the county commissioner as well as the County Auditor in school district um there are hearing notices published um
in advance of the public hearing uh the Development Authority met on July 2 um to consider and uh the uh the tax inurement plan tonight is city council consideration uh holding public he in consideration for approval and then the
next steps um uh following um approval of the district would be review and consideration of a tiff agreement um which uh we don't have the date but that would be a future time and the tip agreement really contains the terms that I discussed about the pay youo and the
in fund loan um all the terms of of what the developer be required to what the city would be required to pursuant to re receiving the tax equipment um assistance so that's my formal presentation I'd be happy to answer any questions or put it up to the public is
there anyone in the audience or any member of the council that has any questions of Caleb or of Larry anyone that has any comments regarding the Tiff District I'm sorry you said how long you
expect this one to be out for mayor members of the council the maximum term of a Redevelopment district is 26 years 25 years after Reed a first increment um the the tip plan is structured to um allow for the full 26 years of
collection but subject to what the annual um inflationary growth of the values would be we might expect it to be lesser than um we are showing some Surplus increment that could be lesser than 26 years but I don't know if if that would come I so the expectations could be up to 26 years with the goal of
closing it earlier once the obligations have been fulfilled and if the future values um increase at a rate greater than what's projected any further questions hearing none thank you Michaela that public hearing is closed
and I would entertain a motion from the councel soone second motion's been made seconded to establish renew element project number 43 Redevelopment plan establishment of tax income and financing District
43-1 discussion all in favor of the motion say I I iOS motion curious Matt if I could jump around a little bit on the Community Development yes sir would you do I believe there's adment here for
item 5f I think yes sir is that sound right yes are you Jeff I am yeah will you take that one that sure uh I 5f consideration of resolution approving a variance to allow an addition to home with less than 75 foot setback and a
variance to allow 30.8 impervious surface coverage to allow an addition to home and construction of an accessory building in 1554 eastshore Drive uh this was discussed last night at CDC uh this had unanimous approval we thought it was a great plan to get this done and
improve this uh it keeps all the natural Landscaping with water flows everything like that Planning Commission uh reviewed this and had unanimous approval there so I move this forward second motion has been made second to approve a variance uh as outlined byi at 1554 East
sh dry discussion all in favor the motion say I I oppose motion carries and now mat would you go to item 5B 5B consideration of second reading and Adoption of ordinance 523 for the annexation of 78.6
Acres tracted land more or less at 13 9698 278 Avenue Detroit Lakes uh Becker County Lake View Township and keration is zoning such track land ra agricultural District uh this was brought up last night at CDC this is
discussed many times over um I would like to move to give a second reading to ordinance 523 for the annexation of 78.6 AC Acres tracked land more or less 13698 27th Avenue Detroit Lakes in Becker County Lake View Township and Zone one
subract of land ra agricultural residence and RM multif Family Residence uh District uh as requested by the developer on this uh a couple of reasons I feel this is the annexation of land is critical to accommodate the growth and future development of the city the city
is needed additional housing options and additional multif family the combination of low uh density and high density multif family housing in this Annex area is an opportunity to address that shortage the developer proposes a to develop both low density and multif
family housing the de developer should have latitude to determine how best meets the city's needs uh annexation zoning uh this property is requested developer and is consistent with our City's 2020 comprehensive plan is there a second
second motion's been made seconded to give second reading and adopt ordinance 523 as outlined by Al mokei I know there are a number of folks here from the neighborhood if any of you would like to make any comments this would be the appropriate time to do so
and if you would come to the microphone please and state your name and state your address I'm getting good at you know the drill my name is Jay Hansen I live at 2111 on 270th Avenue with my wife Angie
and Senor too um um Ron and Wendy weren't here to last meeting to here it so I'll go through my broken record again but um I live directly across from your proposed RM portion of the property and um they want to put up a 60t tall uh
apartment building and then I guess the plan is to build houses on the other side of it um I don't see that as fitting in the neighborhood and I don't think anybody want to build a house on the opposite side of a 60ft tall building uh so I'm asking that um we
prefer it to be R2 but if you could Zone it as um R4 and reduce the height of the of the apartment um I know everybody has said that we need apartment buildings I would really rather see it put on the west side of the property the west side
of the property is wide open it abuts nothing there's deer and and uh kyot over there that's it and so there's plenty of room if you went uh the DL boat access I don't know if any of you I'm sure most of you have been by there
but if you go to the DL boat access and you take a hard right instead of going left into the boat access the woods there carry you straight around behind shider shock which is the only business on that end other than long bridge and anything built back there would be hidden from anybody and
if you wanted to put 60ft tall buildings back there you could and it's not going to affect anyone I'd also like to bring to your attention Matt was nice enough to reach out to me after the last meeting we talked a little bit and one of the things he brought up is it's your job
kind of to look in the future too of the future Detroit lights and what's going to be 10 and 20 years down the road and what I probably won't be at 270th media but if I'm not and as the building continues to go on to the South there's
only a couple places for it to go and to directly to the west of Garrick's property is a 47 acre plat it's right right next to it there's a little bit of swamp in between um that's for sale to the of his property directly attached to
it is 115 Acres that's currently for sale in J Baker so that's the natural progress of how things are going to be going would be from if the DL boo access and straight out to 13th and then on the other side 13th is the grand prize
eventually schau House Farm there's 500 Acres there we can build another town if you wanted to but that's where I think any 60t tall buildings should go and I appreciate your time thank you thank you Jay does anyone else like to make any
comments I know we've heard some of these but we did have a couple of council members that were not in attendance last month are you the lady that read that letter last time I did yes try to be nicer okay it wasn't my letter but I
don't I can't promise that it was I don't think we need to be calling people's names out if that's possible all right I'm Ambert Abraham um I live at 641 sou slore Drive I've been here multiple
times um at the last meeting I started my speech with I know how this is going to go but I'm not the type to say just not say anything and while we all saw how it went so maybe this will be a surprise to tonight
too we've been fighting against commercialization of our neighborhood since I believe it's December of 2022 apartment buildings are commercial they are business we have signed petitions attend attended planning meetings countless City Council meetings
and we're still not being heard by certain members of the council and the developer doesn't even attend most meetings I know there's not a lot of us here tonight but I want you to think back of all the people that have been here to say we do not want commercial in our neighborhood there have been
petitions signed by literally hundreds of people it's not just who's here tonight I think people are getting sick of doing this quite frankly I was at the CDC meeting last night and the lottery engineer stated that the plan is to build the apartments first and next is commercial residential
on that corner um the plan is then to phase it as stated in two single homes I don't know who would buy there but he feels someone well um the potential layout shows how
he disrespects our current neighborhood there are W there are residents willing to compromise for smaller multi- living buildings and G geared will not compromise he doesn't care he is the worst type of developer to have in your neighborhood he has proven he cannot be trusted and he has
zero idea how to develop he has been throwing out ideas to see what sticks and wor of all we have coun members following him around scared he's going to leave at the CDC meeting last night and listened to a gentleman give a presentation against twin hommes in his
neighborhood there are meeting minutes of residents around Randal speaking against apartments in their neighborhood the apartments on sore and all three are moving forward regardless of how the residents feel we need to pay attention to how our
council is voting who do they support do they listen to you or do they listen to react do they treat you with respect it is a voting year we need to pay attention and vote accordingly otherwise it'll never
change we need a representative that lives on sou side of the lake our current Representatives do not live in our neighborhood and I believe they do not care but because of that we are an experiment for the city and as a neighborhood we are the ones that will deal with the traffic the light
pollution safety crime and the resale of our properties we need someone that understands this is not a business because with a neighborhood first and should remain a neighborhood I'm going to do my safety plug as I did last time we had our truck
parked on the shoulder of sore in front of our home and it was rear ended by a distracted driver so I want you all to think what when's out a person you know that car was tootal you need start looking before you
start pumping traffic over for an apartment building of 150 people how are you're going to separate the people from the traffic not only is that an issue I don't know if anyone made it out there over Fourth of July just to see how our neighborhood is at anyone it's nuts isn't it there's bikers
there's I mean there's people everywhere It's a Wonderful Community for that people love the outdoors there's great there's a side by sides I me I've given the 100 times and nothing has been done so not only is that a problem I mean there's like little kids going to fishing man I just hate to see something
bad happen that's a problem I would review traffic calming measures they're actually fairly inexpensive just to slow the traffic coming around in that field there it is wide open all the time and I'm sure your engineer can look into that or help you look into me measures
that are inexpensive just to help calm the traffic and I'm not talking your signs at work only half the time time I put some thought into it just as the neighborhood I think we would appreciate that was that nice enough for you Mr Mayor border line okay thank you thank
you for your time anyone else that wishes to speak yes sir my name is Brian Grammer uh I have a home on un and 11253
Unice um I'm here just representing the developer so not Mr Garrett but the people that plan on doing the development on the land um that is uh one of the developers or Partners in development have done a
lot of developments in Detroit L name is BR Keen uh he's done Norby Flats the plaza um he he's done quite a few uh Midtown development Stone Brook Apartments Downtown Crossing so he's not he was
born and raised in Detroit Lakes he's not and uh someone who doesn't care about the community um I'm originally from Morhead but I plan on living here uh as an ner my kids are at triplets that are attending the University of
Nebraska this fall so um from zero from three to zero just like that so I'm here to answer any questions um maybe it would be helpful to kind of hear the kind of developments that we do I don't know if that would be helpful
but um they're very highend and uh this is going to be a very high-end development and um for empty nesters and young professionals that are seeking a a lifestyle a late lifestyle but can't
afford the down payment the current interest rate environment or and so they want to be close to the lake but they want to be a part of the community and they don't I mean I heard some issues about traffic and things
like that uh we don't have uh we have a building in Morehead for example there's no traffic issues there's not there's no parking issues there this is going to be a facility with indoor parking underground parking either indoor or
underground um which is also indoor um be spread out with Gardens and walkways and nature trails and uh things that the neighborhood could probably would want to use themselves
so and I don't know if you're like there's like I mean go ahead and ask questions I guess I don't know what you guys want to know or what you hope to know at this point is there questions from the council well I've got a question you mentioned you live on
Lake can you imagine that you had a lot of land next door and all of a sudden this building is going to be next door to you how would you feel I wouldn't feel bad at all I the one we have in Morehead I thought about even moving in there now that my
kids are leaving to downsize and uh it's a surrounded by residential neighborhoods it's the only apartment complex surrounded by all residentials neighborhood and never heard a complaint from any the residents
and in fact the new development next to our apartment complex is a new single family home development and they're selling lots so the this isn't like they were already there they're buying the lot knowing that the apartment's there that's how nice it is you can't tell it's an apartment it looks like a home the way that architecture in it is the
way that we develop them I mean it's not like it's not like uh and I don't want to disparage anyone so I'm not going to give examples but um it's not what you're thinking as far as a big apartment complex do you have schematics or
anything to show us I wasn't here last week but did you have pictures of what this going look like um I don't have the I would hate to show you like anything in preliminary stages but um yeah we we're going through all that that process right now it's hard to spend all
the money on the on all that stuff until you know that the zoning is been approved so um we spent quite a bit of money on PR plans with Architects and I think maybe architect is here they were here at the last meeting but um yeah we don't have anything to
show at this point because we have to finalize some things once we know what the zoning is any further questions M two comments Mr one I appreciate you showing up I wish You' been here six months ago um one question is was with this is as you
can tell the neighborhood is very sensitive and this is a big issue for all of us if if this does go through would you consider moving the building to the far west of this development would you at least take that into
consideration well when we we don't control that we don't own the development we just we just have what they're willing to sell us correct and so they've never proposed that to us no in understand but if the purchase agreement goes through you know and it
is zoned RM would you well I mean our purchase is only for 10 acres yeah so yep it wouldn't be we couldn't move up but I'm saying the West edge of the property willing to purchase I don't even know I don't think we decided exactly where we're going to have so you
considered those what I consider that we Mee the neighbors I mean we we really um I mean I don't I just got involved six months but I wasn't involved in this so that must have been Mr Garett when he was doing stuff Goa okay so I so I was
just I just got involved in second question on this is looking at traffic CU I know that's a large concern yeah and if this does go through is this something that I feel strongly that we need to look at traffic in that area whether that's parking nodes or our city
engineer probably has a list of ideas that may or may not work is that something that you as a developer of this property would be willing to sit down at the table and discuss and work through to find solutions that works for everybody absolutely the city staff in
is veryy to work with and um we we like to work with them so whatever we need to do to work with them is fine thank you can can I go ahead Jackie so Matt you made the motion to do R A and RM but not
designate where the RM is the the RM designation will go back to the developer request yes so that would be on the East that would be off 27 yes off the east you're saying you would
consider moving that apartment yeah I mean there's there's already things that we have to consider because of the you know the how close the development is to the lake you know and so we have to there's some things we have to mitigate there um so yeah we're not anywhere near
a final plan and we're still we're still trying to figure out how to mitigate some of those things and the best way to do it and part of the reason why you have in today's environment you have to is it's just rageous Cost right now um with the inflation that's happened over
the last 5 years so if you want if anyone wants apartments even in Fargo Morhead they're going higher now because you can't afford to go wider so you have to figure out what's need about VLS you've got some terrain there's not much Terrain in Morehead
it's flat so you can uh you can like use some of the terrain to hide some of the height of the buildings which is what we're trying to do with these plans with the architect so again I think you hear it and I totally understand like if I live somewhere and
I heard this developments coming in um I would be concerned and not knowing the developers I would be concerned and so like I said now that I'm involved in the process I used to be on the mor city council Mor finding commission so I would definitely like to make it get
inut from everybody try to make it so that we're a good neighbor and um solve the need the has with having more apartments and frankly giving people that wouldn't otherwise have access to the a late life they have opportunity to
do it I mean right now we could afford to have a late place if I would have bought my late Place 15 years ago I wouldn't so and and the developer wouldn't consider the R4 which would be three stories instead of four we tried I mean we've done all kinds of
preliminary we we did the preliminary plans trying to see how to make it work with the you know with less force it just all the bids we got back were crazy high costs and the only way to make it feasible was to go up one
more floor question Jack well no I I I mean this is a tough decision because we do need housing we definitely know we need housing and not everybody can that down payment for a home so they have to start in an apartment or they might might want to downsize and go to an apartment which
opens up housing for other people so this is not an easy decision I I I would be more comfortable with an R4 than an RM but we have to deal with the motion on the table I've got a question for Larry how how many a does GE own poly
there I'm sorry how many acres does G propy have in total that whole area that's 78 67 7.67 well I I I have a little concern because you're you're telling me that developer he's concerned about his cost
so he's got to put an extra um floor so he can balance this out so he can make a make a decent profit off it but at the same time when you raise that up the neighborhood is concerned what's going to happen with the values of their home and you know you're saying that this
developer is easy to work with and so forth don't we get him to come in and have him have a meeting just the neighborhood out there and sit down with him and see what he can come out with it I well yeah I mean I'm repes when I Sayes I'm one of the partners now I just
got into the partnership so so I can definitely meet with them definitely would love it but would would you do that before we made a decision here tonight so you can sit down and see what all those people feel like well the issue that we have is we can't we have
other opportunities and we have to get started you know the building building season around here is short so we don't have a lot of time um but and so we need to start spending money on things that we won't get back there's no way to get
the money back if we can't do that until this is approved so what I would do is definitely me with the neighborhood I mean there's so many decisions we made like you can do stuff with Landscaping to make it better you can do stuff I me with I would like to meet with all that stuff because we want want this to fit
into the neighborhood and be really nice so like it this an upscale like the the price point is going to be like you know it's more affordable than own in the lake play so if you want to have a you know have that but it's not
going to be um I mean it just can't be mean the way that the way the Bild stuff in order to make it so that it cash flows the price point is probably going to be a little bit higher than what you have in right now but what is the rental rate going to do do you think
area just depends on the size yeah sure it'll be like anywhere from like $1,500 to $2500 there's housing AFF we don't want me to talk in the back now thank you I mean in Morad as an
example you can you can't rent anything now that's as nice as this is going to be for less than $2500 a month you know the question have because we know there's a shortage of housing whether it's an apartment or single houses orlex
triplexes but Marty Salon out there over the years he's put in a very housing very good housing area and I'm just wondering why we couldn't go ahead and continue that example he's had that's worked out well and uh you know it's pleasing to the neighborhood also but I
also wondering U one of the things was on the screen with this lady talking about tip doers uh we could do uh Tiff dollar for for building property and I've always thought that we've done tiffs for everything else but us not having a lot
of land um maybe the city should be looking at um buying that property up a TI doll and then get contractors in and sell off each of buy part of the pie to put in their property so they could have the neighborhood that my concern is you
said it's going to be great for the neighborhood and stuff but how's it going to look 25 30 years from now because I know how apartments look after they start aging a little bit and that's that's a concern that's what these concerned with the people here too so I I I want housing
but I I think if you if you could listen to these people and help them that just ask a simple thing move it up a little bit further behind the trees you wouldn't be uh as visible as what you plan on being but you're working off these people's nice homes at the same
time that's why you pick that spot you want to you want to be a nice neighborhood you want to help out your property too but at the same time it's at the cost for the people that live there that's that's what that's what I have trouble with yeah I told you and
you know where I'm coming from because you said you you wouldn't mind having this apartment by your Lake home but I guarantee the rest the lake would mind and that's that's the big part of it this is yeah I don't know I mean
everyone's different I all I know is we are very um committed to the now and in the future and I think Mr ke has shown that with his investment in the community and and um I love the by the way this is
really nice I wish I would C chamber so nice yeah it's really nice yeah any other questions further comments or questions all right this is probably good thank you since this is probably
be again if we could have your name yes sir uh my 650 self draft council members mayor sorry for my own Pur but any been here before I didn't get a notice for this time I don't know why if that was on purpose or not but U got before um I just wanted to go on record again and
say I support everything that on the previous gentleman said kind of he kind of had research gentleman he kind of had until he said it looked like a home then he was going to be four stories or any four story homes in DL so then I just knew again you can't trust these guys
what they say I'll just leave it at this again I hate to bring it up but like this year U my family I are going to pay $116,000 in property taxes which I know the city gets about half of that and I just find it absolutely
appalling that my council member and other council members and uh employees with in the city Department want to put commercialization across my kitchen window thank you hi Margaret I'm Margaret Gunderson from 564
Southshore Drive it's possible I've misunderstood but I thought that last meeting the motion that was approved was for our a zoning for the entire parcel and that that was what the first reading
was for and that after more particulars are available from the developer about the parcel and its development then um further resoning if necessary would
be considered and I get the impression this evening that now RM and are four are being considered to be reinserted before the second reading am I misunderstanding that's what the motion is
Margaret so I that doesn't seem proper to change the original readings motion that was approved to the second reading which will be different that doesn't seem proper I would call on the City attorney
to comment on that I ex you can see that I have my little Charter and I tabbed it so that because I kind of anticipated we did that question so I'm reading from the city Charter and uh specifically section
305 and I think it pertains to this um so it says an ordinance may not be amended after its first reading so as to change its original purpose and so the short answer to that is is that you can amend the uh
ordinance at the second reading as long as you are not changing its original purpose so I guess that depends on what you think the purpose of the ordinance is um you know is it an ordinance
rization we're not changing that uh this is specifically not an ordinance for zoning uh although this ordinance does also include Z so I just leave it to say that um that's the language of the charter and that'ss that we have to
follow thank you thank you Mar good evening my name is Mike fth my wife and I live at 622 sore drive for Kitty Corner to this this fith in lot and you know we've been coming here to these
meetings for two years um and I totally understand the frustration that um previous people have expressed and I can't believe that we're still talking about this to make a I mean when you hear four stor 60t High 150 unit
property you kind of get a feel for what that is this is an actual picture of what that looks like this is the view in Fargo at NSU student housing it's 180 units a little bit bigger but it's
essentially what we're talking about throwing across the street from us I defy anybody here to say oh I wouldn't have a problem with that going across the street from me I'll pass it around the even tide proposal that came
to the East Shore a while back came with plans studies they laid out the traffic impact they laid out everything for you guys and four people spoke against it boom that was out the
door and it it guaranteed 40 decent paying jobs I don't know that they could afford $552,000 a month in rent working at even TI maybe they could get by doing that kind of doubt
it where are the plans for this where are the studies saying oh Detroit needs Detroit Lakes needs this much housing I haven't heard a single study from you guys about any housing I
hear we need it but where's the study where's the proposal about what this is going to look like can we get a a a graphic artist to show us I don't want to hear about all the the Landscaping is going to be nice that really doesn't do anything for
me when I'm looking at a four-story building and the traffic really are you going to are you going to tell me that there's going to be no traffic impact there's one road sell shore drive and we're going to put 300 400
people in that apartment building and it's not going to impact Our Lives got to be kidding me just a point of correction of I know he's trying to what he's trying to illustrate but that actually is a fivestory building there take the
top build top level the rest of Brad 213 27 Avenue I Jay's neighbor um I was at the last meeting when propos some of the council members were here I do want to correct some of the statements by the developer that spoke
there is an exact track of land identified to build on so they do have plans um on where it's going to be so what he said was not correct um I would disagree with that statement where he said they haven't identified where they in build yet because if you looked at the last proposal it was on the M
there's 9.86 Acres that was identified that's right right across from from our property yeah just to clarify I think the actual owner of the proper is offering a certain spot for sale correct right that's identified though I
mean yes which like says it's exactly cross from where we live right now so like Jay stated before and I stated at the last meeting we're not against annexation we are requesting that the city feels and the developer feels that they would like to receive this project
that they move it to the West just like Jay said there's plenty of acres to work with there I realize that's the property that's offered but if the city thinks it's needed developers willing to do it I feel there's other places with the property where that could go not having a great impact on the neighborhood that's there right now just like Jay
said way on the west side of that property that for a lot of people we wouldn't really see because of the way the landscape sits right there I'm pleading with you like this thing goes through on how this is going to impact us the value of our property you can't tell me that's going to go down I mean I don't know anybody that
would want to purposely buy a property right across from building you know that wasn't already there it's different if it's already there right but if I go to sell my property because this is going to happen and somebody finds out about that how am
I going to sell my cool buyers I've talked to three Realtors and my property value is going to drop and this goes through we feel like we have to move I shouldn't be feel like I have to do that because of what's going to happen here that's just not right I have a problem with that I don't have a problem with annexation I know the city needs to grow
however $2,000 rent is not affordable housing I will also State I live on 270th right next to where this I don't consider that I live on a lake I don't live on the lake I drive by the lake if he's saying people are going to buy this because they think they're going to live on the lake or feel like they're on the lake I disagree with that statement I
don't understand how that would be appealing to somebody to pay that kind of rent to live in an apartment that's by the lake I mean you have access to L just like anybody else yes but you don't live on the lake so like I said I'm if you guys feel this needs to go through
Mass I really consider moving a vocation or I'd much rather prefer the R2 or R4 designation thank you thank you which one of you is going to speak both of us okay I'm Anna and this is pel
hi say hi Hi and um she wanted to explain to us why she would like to live in a place where there's proposing why would you like to live in a place it's it's near the lake and
nearby and there's lot of KS and neighborhs around there for us to fight to go friend houses and we need housing for families you thank you all right well I think probably
heard from everybody in the room almost so I think we're to the point unless there's more comments from the council or questions com um while we've been sitting here this representative that's a friend of BR ke
says I'm here tonight I'm a friend ke now as we get into his his pep talk we point out now that he's also a partner he didn't tell us that at first he was just here as as a friend of Mr ke but I
I personally don't think that we have enough information to even consider voting on this and site plan is part of doing business and it's going to be part of the cost of doing business but that's what you need when you want to put in a
complex like this and uh we need more information and we can't say oh you can you can trust us well you know what maybe we can't trust but we don't know for sure but it's too late after the building is built and I think we
need to have site plans we need know what's happening and I think we need to look at their request of moveing this thing further back so most of it is away from that regular housing here because these last two gentlemen talked and
after seeing a picture like this maybe one story less to me it's way too much that I want to look out every morning and say holy macro and U last night we had the engineer you know for Mr Garrick
and we talked to him about making changes and he said Mr G what housing and he also wants to have neighborhood commercial property right off the bat so we can see what's happening and um I just think that we're
pushing this too far and I I we've got a beautiful neighborhood out there and I don't know why we want to go ahead and ruin a neighborhood so somebody can make a few bucks and then uh go away from I I'm just conern of
neighborhoods and keeping people happy in their neighborhoods and I just think we've got to I think we're pushing this down the road too fast it's it's not good management uh for our city to have this because it makes people think even more ever since we put in this mid
residential neighborhood we've had people say to me zema I would never build I never buy a house when there's land next to me or close to me cuz I know what's going to happen to Detroit Lakes you could have a gas station you
could have a retail store you could have whatever that they want to put in there and you've got no say and I don't I don't think that's right for the people to have that feeling realiz we've got a great town and uh we shouldn't let our zoning ruin a town and I think that's
where we're going right now after hearing all this tonight okay I think we've actually I have something i' like to say if I can have just a minute I promise I'll get to the point um I thought a lot about this
in the last several weeks we've heard a lot from a lot of people and I did a little search and I found about 14 apartments that were available in Detroit Lakes this afternoon maybe a couple houses for rent
it seems like a really low inventory for a community our size that's trying to grow that's trying to have good Economic Development even the chamers report from Gro Minnesota says that housing or lack thereof in Detroit Lakes was a bigger concern to local businesses than child
care and we talk about child care a lot as well I think about the comparison to even tide that was a different scenario that was already zoned R2 already within the city not an annexation request I think about the RM zoning and the appropriateness of the RM zoning every
RM Zone in this community is right next to an R2 Zone I went through the gis site this morning and Larry maybe there's one I didn't find but everyone I could find was right next to R2 this this is what we have historically done and so it's not out of line it's not
different from what we've done we the traffic on that road is the 2023 report was was 17 little well just under 1,800 cars per day which gives it a level service level of service of a according to our city engineer out of a through d d being the
lowest the safety concerns yeah we've heard many times about safety on Sol Drive that is an issue that we need to address but separate from from the annexation it's an issue we need to address whether whether there's an an annexation or not whether there's additional growth or not it's something that we need to address and we've
listened to our residents over the past two years we we did we created when we created the neighborhood commercial Zone we didn't include the gas station we didn't add the neighborhood commercial Zone to that original annexation request even though it was requested by the
developer because we said that that was the thing we didn't want and here we are two years later came came back and you requested the RM without the commercial zone so we have been listening to our residents and I think this is where I really struggle because I hear I hear what all of you are saying and I think
about the future and the growth of our community and I think about those tracks of land that we can grow in do J like you mentioned like what do we do what do we do when when we don't grow when we don't expand we need to really think
about the the future growth of the city as a whole and I think that this fits with our comprehensive plan it fits with the needs of the community and it fits
with what we need to do to keep growing as a community and meet the needs and the demands that are on us and so that's that's why I would vote Yes for this thank you got another comment I happen
to be an expert in apartment houses because they're all over my neighborhood behind the vocational school and those people they didn't have a choice they had nice Twin Homes in there next thing you know here it's Apartments more Apartments more apartments no they're
not happy they haven't been happy and um so you say people have we've had a habit of putting all these because that's what we went are too now we no longer have a two mile Zone to get properties Dr and like I said we as a city may have to
look at doing some buying our land ourselves because right all the way it is we're looking at this Farmland that's going to go for whatever only they want to have put in if we want to have man could be business could be ever I'm hoping it's going to be housing but but
right now uh this whole thing with Apartments putting in nice residential homes you know this is you started in the north side now you're working over here the whole town and I just uh I just can't believe thinking about this and it
it is bad planning and bad zoning to put these type of properties in with uh existing homes and I can understand that there was a thousand acres and somebody wants to come in and put a prop in and then people going build up next to it which
will never happen then I say that I understand that but U the building spot I can see right now is off to road that B brisland has um but it just gets to be too much but these people for mostly
people that's probably the biggest investment they have as these homes and here we're going to come in and you take a take a market price right now what these houses are today and see what going to be in the next two or 3 years after this thing's build you're going to
have people going up look at the house and look across the street they just keep on driving but I I I wish we could slow this down and talk to ER and try to get something that could work out and talk to these neighbors that would be
pleas pleas for plausible for everybody to come into because that's what we need right on we're running this thing so fast without even giving them a chance to come the site plan that we need but for a big operation like these folks are to come
in and say we can't make the site plan to the cost money well I'm sorry I can't accept that answer okay J I think uh what's really upsetting here is the process in which this is
occurring I'm supportive of the annexation as agriculture but I think the process seems to be backwards we are making a 10 acre zoning to RM to appease the
landowner to be able to sell off 10 acres to Mr Keane and and Etc um I think that processes backwards um it feels to me like you know the city's is so interested in having this land within the city limits
and having control of the development that the the developers using this 10 acres uh as R4 as kind of a a leverage um to get what he wants and I think I think coming in as as an RA uh
and then rezoning that 10 acres or coming to some compromise with the neighboring neighbors as to where this RM will be is the right way to go not allowing this 10 acres as part of the deal as an RM um I think um I think
there's been a lot of compromise with the neighbors as to yeah they would like uh the R4 R3 Etc in different locations but to me it doesn't seem like there's been any kind of consideration or
compromise by the developing people the developers um and then yesterday like uh Ron Zan uh stated at the CDC meeting now they're coming in saying yeah we're going to do that we want to do and we still have this plan to do a Community
Development or a a neighborhood commercial District so all this is is coming around again things that the neighbors have already said we don't want and how come we're willing to listen to other areas like East Shore
like we brought up last month the same concerns the that these current neighbors are reading about traffic light pollution noise pollution those are all the same concerns that the eastshore residents had when eventi wanted to bring in their property now
those those concerns that these local people have are not an issue of course they're an issue and they should be considered uh um I just think uh there's no formal plan like Ron stated for this 10 acres and I think
before we before we rezone that 10 acres to RM I think we need to have some plans in hand and look at it um there needs to be some balance this comprehens comprehensive development plan the city has once again it's not
set in stone it's a GU it's a guy it's a plan and there needs to be some balance there needs to be some compromise balance between City growth and the people living there already there needs to be some compromise between the
neighbors and the developers therefore I'll vote no I think we bring it in as an RA and if the developer wants to uh purchase land and rezone it at a later date then bring in
plans and we'll discuss it them okay well got one more can I before R please um thanks again for showing up again this is not something that's been happening under the cover of Darkness this is not something that's been
happening if high and closed doors this have been out in the open this is we've made comments that it's it's you know my name you know my address primar shoe size too but that's beside the point this isn't this isn't a vacuum we have talking about this parcel I remember
sitting over there and meeting back in like 2016 when I first got on the council and and we had a conversation what would happen if this parcel ever came into into Detroit Lakes what would we want to put in that area back then I did represent this area
with the pre zoning of of uh redistricting I got moved so I don't represent you right now but I do live basically in your neighborhood I live right across the street from Longbridge so I do the area I do run that road I do ride my bike up and down that road I
roller ski that road I do all sorts of uh activities down in that neighborhood I do think this is something that we do need in that that area this isn't under the cover of Darkness this is something we've been talking about we need something down there we need an option
Ron I know you're an expert on on uh Zone zoning and you're an extrovert out of Apartments because they're all in W one well you can't tell us that we can't have apartments on the south because you don't want them on the C what I'm saying what the issue is about so
between individuals no not I apologize for that but I think we do need to do something we have a perfect opportunity to have an apartment building a well-developed place to have this we had somebody come in to our community have
faith in our abilities to have zoning and planning out there that said we want to have something bigger and better on this parcel of property it was dropped in our lap the developer has not been underhanded one bit it's been us that's been dragging our feet it's been us
that's been playing the Charlie Brown pull the football out in front of everybody and say oh sorry try again and then get mad about before going to the county when that's what the process dictated the developer do when we screwed up and said no so we're still
making a mistake you can blame me for it but I personally believe we need bigger and better on the south side and it's important for our growth and development for both our city and for our businesses so it'll be short I'm just saying that
the Housing Authority Detroit Lakes in the city Detroit Lakes itself have just paid for a housing study and uh we just started receiving it was 165 page study can we at least wait before we do anything and can we see what that study
says before go any further on it or we paid for the study let's see what the study has to say that's all I'm asking okay well we have a motion in a second on the table I think we've heard from just about everybody tonight
so thank you for all your comments I'm going to take a roll call vote from the council and I'll start on my left Jay can I ask a clarifying question to the attorney so this is amended
uh from last's motion um does that then turn this into the first reading again or is this still be the second well again the language of the charter is sorry get used to the place um the language of the charter is essentially
does it change the purpose and so in my view but you disagree with the purpose of the ordinance is for an annexation and I don't believe that it changes a purpose but that disagree but with that added 10 acres back in RM then the
purpose is changed no I think the purpose of the ordance is annexation with the addition right so this would ultimately be the second reading yes J your vote please no John
yes Mike I Matt yes Jackie no r no Hy
yes Dan yes and a is absent motion passes five to three I'm not so good with my math again thank you for your polite toate and for
attending um I would encourage the devel to talk more with us and we can try to orchestrate some conversation with the neighborhood about possible different location so if you could do that we' sure
appreciate it thank you again thank you for coming and with that we go back to the regular agenda unless there's anyone else in the audience that has an item You' like adjusted May believe 5 go ahead go ahead
pres excuse me uh and 5e consideration of resolution of proov and variance to allow a twin home in a lot with a width of 130 ft instead the required width of 135 ft at 1481 Michigan Avenue uh this was reviewed last night uh we had a good
presentation discussion around this um the CDC was unanimous approval on this as well as the Planning Commission uh so I move this to bring this forward there a second second motion been made second to adop the resolution approving the
variance at 1481 Michigan discussion I have a question go ahead CDC last night um a gentleman came in and talked about the property and referenced that Mr Sherman is a realtor for the property
and not an owner um the city attorney's office was going to find an answer to that we address it was able to get additional information the property is owned by Big Wave Ventures
LLC and the partners in that group are Gabriel line and Jay Sherman thank you for clarifying further discussion all in favor of the motion say I I oppos that motion carries thank
your honor I'd like to move up to item C uh consideration of second reading and Adoption of ordinance 524 resoning from 4 Limited multif family to RM multif family resident District at 1510
Randolph Road uh CDC discussed this last night uh this is also the second reading of this uh so we I would move this forward second been made second to give second reading and adopt ordinance 524 is there a discussion on the motion
I would like to make one comment um we missed Dennis KCK last time and he wanted to make a comment that was opposed to this with very similar arguments to most of the other residents and I told them I would share that with the councel and I asked them I asked
several times last meeting if there was anyone that wanted to talk and they didn't speak until after so I did apologize to den so we have a motion and a second on the table discussion all in favor the motion say I
I iose motion carries sir in the back did you have something you want to oh that was Michigan Avenue okay all right thanks very good uh seeing that we're jumping all over let's try 5D next consideration of
resolution of proving a non-conforming use expansion permit to allow a 10-ft extension to the west side of the garage and extending the Breezeway 10 ft to the North in line with a 5ft setback on existing house and garage at 1050 Lake Avenue uh this was discussed at CDC last
night uh as well as Planning Commission with the UN unanimous approval uh ISO moved second motion been made seconded to adopt a resolution approving a nonconforming use expansion permit at 10:50 Lake Avenue
discussion all in favor of the motion say I I I oppose motion carries I believe the last item is item 5A discussion regarding a memo for the City attorney regarding interim use permits Kelsey you've got a couple hours to
figure this out so mayor and Council yes there's a memo on there from uh the City attorney uh the last CDC meeting we talked about the possibility of amending our zoning ordinance to allow interm use permits that would allow some temporary uses in
our commercial districts uh we reviewed that memo at the CDC meeting I think at this point was just discussion there's still more work to do on that um I think City did a very good job laying out kind of the process that we could adopt for
doing interim use permits I think the bigger question is just where and what kind of interim uses uh the council and Planning Commission would actually want to consider so more discussion is needed on that thank you Kelsey as I encourage CDC is we can't sleep over the next
month pull this out read it uh I think it's some good uses but a lot of question marks in here as well so that is just a discussion item in mayor I believe that concludes CC thank you we'll move on to the public works committee Ron you got five minutes to do the whole thing well I going say
I'll try to be as long as Boi wasn't his committee see what happens here let's go to item a we had discussion regarding handicap parking at 15 minute parking and the city engineer reminded us that next spring we're going to be doing a complete overall of that parking lot so
I think what we're going to do is just uh hold off and tell CU we don't want to tear that thing up after to change anything and do it over so that's just for discussion and we'll go go forward for next spr get done way we need to have done uh ib's consideration of
approving a change order for the library uh parking lot project uh I'm going to talk to have uh celsey talk to us about what what that's been involv mayor and Council so we had in the budget for the library redoing the
parking lot as uh this year as we redid have a West downtown project do fre E Street uh we want to also do the parking lot I would Clearly say that a little bit of a project creep occurred uh we were looking at more of a simple reserving we had about
$50,000 uh budgeted uh if you look at the quote from hink who is actually doing uh the West downtown project who um provided us with this cost is $86,000 uh that's because the project has evolved quite a bit we're actually
looking at uh basically removal of the existing parking lot some regrading some curb replacement and probably the bigger item is some storm water retention some underground storm water retention for treatment so uh we think the price is uh
reasonable based upon where his other um bid prices were at we would recommend approval and then this would be funded through probably a combination of our food and beverage fund and our permanent Improvement fund okay the communte reviewed this
change order and I recommend that we do so make the change motion's been made seconded to approve a change order for the library parking lot project discussion uh one question I have is for the food and beverage do we have funds available there for 86,000 I know we're
trying to still build that back up from the museum yes mayor and counil um that fund um isn't extremely flush with cash however um because of the timing of some of our projects it does have some funds in it um some of the larger Trail
projects we have that are penciled in haven't quite come to fruition yet so um we'll talk more obviously about that during our budget sessions but at this point yes there are funds available thank you and then some of the funding will also come from the library frund
too we have for that purpose thank you further discussion or questions all in favor motion say I I motion carries okay next item C is consideration approving the purchase of the new uh humidification system for uh
Arena 2 and I'm going to call on Sean you want to take that one yes mayor and Council uh we have had issues with the dehumidification unit in Arena 2 um this is the quote for that
dehumidification unit for $192,400 and uh it could be done yet this winter the committee reviewed this and they still move the mo move ahead of that project second motions been made second to approve a new deif for unit
per unit for Arena 2 discussion all in favor the motion say I I motion carries next item is item D consideration resolution accepting report and set a public hearing on
abatement of disease trees for 2024 look at Shan's report we have 46 Al trees that have acces on them so that's what re this onee recommends an ISO move second motion's been made seconded to
adopt the resolution accepting the report and then setting a public hearing for disease trees for next month discussion all in favor of the motion say I ition car okay the next item is item e this is
consideration to approving a cost of participation with me do for intersection studies on Highway 10 East excuse me on eastshore drive as well as uh looking at Highland Drive and also on
34 and the the cost for this project that R is going to do on intersections is going to cost approximately $75,000 and they been D asking us as a city to participate in paying part of that and they would like to have us uh
give them $5,000 for this study that Comm direct IO is that motion been made seconded to approve the cost participation of mad for intersection study discussion on the motion with this I'm I'm just
questioning if we're cost participating do we get a voice at the table then small one that's true you know that works well I know but at least I'd rather be at the table no I know but Kelsey has been busy with him
so that's that's our voice on so John do you are you involved with it or not yeah as much as other City staff but I mean to answer Oldman boki's question I mean it's this is typical I guess of of what we the arrangement we've had with mot
and some past studies that are similar to this they they want the local agency to have some skin in this and yes effectively we are buying a bit of a seat at the table so okay any further questions all in favor the motion say I
I motion carries I've got a couple of other items here that you have received at your desk uh this is a application for annual Transit virtual license to receive for the over for sweep over for sweep ice cream truck that will beer
City recommend approval license and motion been made seconded to approve a annual trans and merchant license for w for sweet ice cream truck discussion all in favor of motion say
I I have another item that came in is from the fair grounds we have Fair time before you know Fair dates are August 7th to August 10th this year as you know uh parking on the side streets and so forth gets to be pretty difficult
especially when they have the deres and all that and so what they're asking uh for years we've had parking on both sides of the street right right right around the Armory area and they're asking us that if we could uh put no
parking on that area uh for the na of fair this uh August 7 the 10th so it'll be like seven or eight spots on each side of the road to make that open up to be a little easier for entering and exiting the fair grounds and um we had
uh the lady that's in charge of that area and she just asked we could do it we give it a try this year and we'll know how it works for future Affairs but the committee recommends ISO move second motion's been made seconded to approve
some no parking zones uh during the fair by the fair ground em discussion on the motion all in favor of the motion say I I oppos motion carries the next item is
have John City J updated report mayor and Council uh not a ton to report here as far as projects this month we continue to wrap up a number of projects that just have a few punch list items and we're working on final payments for candle Avenue and Lane
Summit Avenue Terry Street and dandrew subdivision that project was paved and uh it's nearing completion uh the 2024 Street rehab project which is pretty widespread
across the the city um has slowed a bit the weather's been a bit challenging to say the least um but they're making some Headway on that um I'd point out that sort of the second phase of this is probably going to start somewhere around
the week July 22nd maybe a slightly later than that that's going to include work on streets like 11th Avenue West River Road Garnett a small portion of Roosevelt Northshore Drive um a few
other small areas so you'll start to see some activity towards the end of the month um on that remaining portion of the project there um Willis Springs is just about wrapped up they've got a little bit of a lengthy punch list there to get cleaned up but by and large the
streets paved um West downtown um they've got the underground done kban G her in Street uh we actually opened the road temporarily over the Fourth of July weekend and then now I've closed it again while Crews sort of
finish up the sidewalk work and things like that on Holmes but by the later part of this week maybe early next week that should be wrapped up uh meanwhile they're going to be starting on free Street uh at the West End of free street here at Oak Grove and then heading East
on free and so for the next month um that's where a lot of that work will be taking place uh continue to process contracts uh with landmark structures on the new water tower um they're still indicating that they may start some work here as
soon as August so a little bit of wait and see on that but we could see some activity on the new water tower this year um and then the highway 10 East SE water extension uh this is the the infrastructure project to service the uh
Quality Equipment development that project's held for bids we'll open bids on the 16th and those should be on the agenda for the special meeting on the 19th so any questions for John if not I would entertain a motion
for approval of the city Engineers report I would make a motion would accept John's report second motion's been made and second to adopt City Engineers monthly report discussion all in favor of the motion
say I I motion carries you're done oh excuse me uh let's let's go through the imk because here's what's happening on there I'm sorry about that um know the Rotary uh is having having
this event for October Fest and we were going to do it on Washington Avenue but uh our engineers said that that might be in the middle of their doing work on on some of that street there so for that reason uh KY Clen was part of that Ro
Club said he would get together and talk to his members and and he's they and because we wanted to move the homes but he wanted to make sure that his Club was pleased with that and they said homes would be great so I make a motion that we go ahead and have October to be held
on home street instead of on Washington so motion has been made seconded to approve the special event application for the Rotary cund on September 21st to be held on Home Street rather than Washington AV
discussion I'm assuming that road will be freshly paved and ready to go for this absolutely okay good it's for rotary and I think I get to the first G all right all in favor of the motion say I I
motion carries I'll take item 7 a what I'll do is I'll get a motion on the table and then we can have swinging things and then we can box out whatever we want to do here um item consideration to a resolution
authorizing issuance by the city of its $1.3 million tax taxable General obligation Municipal air Revenue bond series 2024a concurring and the issuance by Becker County of at 650,000
taxable General obligation municipal airport Revenue bond series 2024a to the city to the to evidence its obligation to the city to pay proportional share of the cost of the airport project of payment of debt
service on the city's Bond approving the extension and delivery of the Pledge agreement Finance review this this afternoon recommends approval ISO move second motion made to approve a resolution authorizing the issuance of $1.3 million
in general obligation municipal bonds to the airport I do you want to add anything to that I do have a very I do have a very brief presentation put together by D from Baker Tilly um so I'll just go through that real quick
here um so we did um we did go out for bids on this project this was something that we did locally through our local banks rather than going through um the bond market and and getting um getting rates
that way and going through a rating call and all of that um we did um get six different bids back from from various Banks um these bonds are taxable bonds so they a little bit different interest
rate than um the normal City bonds would be uh normally our bonds are tax are non- taxable um so the bid results are on the screen um we we had the the folks
who bid on these bonds give us two different rates one for a non-callable rate and then a callable option um because we'd like to have the option to potentially call those bonds um if possible over the next couple of years
just in case interest rates were to go down or something like that or if we were to find another funding mechanism um that would have a more attractive interest rate then we could pay off those bonds early without any penalties um and and rather have just a slightly
higher interest rate from the onset so um this is what we've we've got for our rates um the lowest callable rate ended up being Midwest Bank here in Detroit Lakes at 7.18% again not a very attractive rate
but um that's that's the best callable rate that we did get from our local banks here excuse me sorry sources and uses of the of the bonds 1.3 million again used to finance
the the um construction of two new uh sixun t- hangers out at the airport they'll be paid back by the proceeds uh or the the revenues from all of the hangers out at the airport so definitely
able to to pay back these these bonds um with the existing hangers and those new hangers that are there even with the interest rate being uh more than we sort of anticipated um then this last slide here is just an
estimate um of looking at a public Bond sale which you know is kind of what we normally do versus this uh sort of um local bank uh call for for proposals the onset there's a lot more um closing
costs in a public Bond sale because you have to have a credit rating agency review um and then there are also underwriter fees but then in return there is a lower interest rate um the thing with uh public Bond sale those
bonds AR are not callable for the first8 years so if we're looking at a 10year term on these bonds we wouldn't be able to call them for eight years so um we're still thinking that um this is the better option to go with this um this
Midwest Bank callable option and again we've we've kind of already gone through this process again this rate isn't exactly attractive but um let's we're we're looking at moving forward with this and then should other other options
present themselves what we could certainly pay these bonds off and refinance any questions for Heidi we do have a motion and a second on the table if there are no further questions or discussion I'll call the
question all in favor of the motion say I iOS motion carries anything else now no CH is there anything on the public safety that you need to bring forth items um on the agenda
today we'll go to the liquor gambling control committee and I'm told Stern is going to take yes Mr Mayor we uh liquor and gambling Committee of met before councel and on the item on our agenda was the consideration to the request from noon rotary to sponsor
October Fest um the gambling committee have discussion on it and we recommend approval of $500 gold sponsorship for marketing for the October FES for and ISO move second motion been made second
to approve a $500 sponsorship for the noon rotary October Fest from the liquor fund discussion all the favor the motion say I I motion please and also Mike is there anything from the public utilities that
you need to bring to the council nothing Mr Mayor okay doesn't look like there's anything City Administration items K see anything mayor and Council sorry mayor and Council just uh bring your attention
to on the page five of the agenda our budget meeting schedule and uh the August city council schedule is a little bit different because uh that Tuesday is the primary
U election so we have to move our meeting to Monday as you can see we currently have all of our committees also moved to Monday August 12th with the exception of Community Development Committee would be Thursday August 8th at
5:00 the last thing I would add um I mentioned it earlier we're currently looking at having a special council meeting on July 19th which is a Friday uh we will do a noon meeting uh our current uh agenda items would be uh the
second reading of the Cannabis moratorium uh we hope to to have bids back for um the East Highway 10 utility extension project and we're also open to have bids for the Detroit Mountain uh
Legacy Grant project for the council to consider at special all right uh Kelsey didn't mention that City elections are coming up this November and the filing opens for Alderman and
mayor positions on July 30th closes August 13th and also he mentioned our budget committee meetings and I would like to appoint the finance committee as our budget committee but certainly those meetings are open to all the council and we
posted as a City Council meetings so there's other members who can attend the joint govern governance meetings for the balance of the year are listed and as Kelsey mentioned the uh Council dates are listed with the ch AUST because of
the election so with that is there anything else that you have J no Sean that of course um just thank you to Public Works uh for the Fourth of July you know that's very busy uh not only
for your staff but also PD um so thank you for making Town look great and rolling out the door M thank you I just want to wish the JC's the a very successful water parle it starts this coming Friday the July 12th and it goes all the way through Sunday the July
21st for the big braid and uh if you can support the JC's please do so and if you want to volunteer I know they accept volunteers and maybe we' had enough rain and they won't get rainy anything else um I would just like
to say uh thank you to Chief Todd and his staff um he did report a meting yesterday that it had been a uh kind of a really good family atmosphere they were busy but they manag a large CR of people very well and I just want to say
thank you this one last plug for Budget meetings it's where we uh meet quite a bit in August and that's where we work and uh earn our dollars for for the year for our day so please uh make an effort to
show up and and join the process all right the business of this Council has come to a conclusion [Music]